Hoops

36ers v Taipans

Ayjay, I'm surprised to see you saying that Marty was pushing too much of a structured offence rather than a running game. Watching the first half, Gibson and Cadee were pushing the ball every chance they got. They interviewed Gibbo at half time and he said the game plan was to run the ball!

Did anyone else try to watch this game on replay on NBL TV? My feed was fine up until the end of the 3rd quarter and then the coverage just ended and went back to the start of the game! Anyone else have this problem?

Luke is looking very clumsy at times. Need to go to Specsavers?

It was good to see Marty use some different combinations on the floor early in the game tonight. I thought he might have been trying out a few new combinations which seemed cool. Particularly bringing Mitch Creek in much earlier and playing Weigh for a few less minutes.
However if he was, he didnt note the results. If he had he would have pushed a running offensive game instead of a tightly structured one.
For a fast paced running game we have a very deep bench, which was not used well tonight and it was an agressive pressure running game which brought us back from way behind putting us back in the game. Marty then pushed a much more agressive defense which was great, but went with an over structured offence which was barely adequate to keep us in front. He doesnt seem to realise that his structures become progressively obvious and easier to defend late in the game.
Schencher should have finished the game coming back on with about 4 mins remaining and Creek should have been in for Cadee at the end.
In the end it was a lucky sucessful 3 point shot from DJ ( his first )in a blocked structured play and an an agressive off balance pressure defended hope shot from Gibson (agressive running play) which gave us the win.
I have to say that sitting in the crowd as a backseat coach we were very lucky to get the win tonight. We got there because of the talent of a few of our players under prtessure which came through despite the seemingly poor and desperate direction from the bench.
Isaac you are quite right, we won from points in the paint for most of the night with Schenscher being a big part of that, but in the end of the last quarter that just became too predictable, and with big Luke on the bench and not involved, we kept putting it in under the ring with failed plays to DJ and another falling to Weigh who fell back to a short range jump shot (missed) instead of taking it in hard to the ring.
We won with a bit of much needed luck tonight. It shouldn't have been that close.
I wouldnt have been surprised if Luke had been subbed in with 30seconds to go. (Like last season, too little too late.)

Nitty Gritty Time for the three year plan. We have the players, but do we have the coach.... Yet?

Marty has recruited some amazing individual talent but seems intent on reducing its effectiveness by controlling and overstructuring rather than maximising it to our benefit.

More mentoring needeed I think!

May need a minor player restructure, recruitment, mid season.

Apologies for having had a few jonnies before posting but I do think we should have come in with 15+ win.

Feel free to citicise my post, I will check later in the day.

Comments!

I think Luke had a better game than what people give him credit for, i know he had a few stumbles but, 15 pts. 58% FG 10 rebs. 2 blocks 3 ass. 1 stl. in 24:24 Minutes.

If he can keep numbers like that up we will be very hard to beat...

*Grabbing

Tech was for grading the ref as he ran past.

It looked to me like Wilson thought he was fouled on the drive (but there was no call), and he was mouthing off at the ref the whole way down the floor.

Well kiss my grits. We managed to hold on.

Can't decide between celebrating the Passing and Rebounding we did, or bollocking the turnovers off of Steals.

NBL.TV once again providing a terrible stream.

And no responses from their Facebook site to any complaints.

Apple TV is on the list of buys to flick it onto the big screen easier than setting up the laptop each time.

Quality not HD but def watchable, enjoying the game especially the 17-5 run to get it back to a couple of points game.

C'mon big red!!

92" projector? that's impressive DJ!

Thanks to an Apple TV purchase this arvo I'm now on the big screen too. Picture is working well - not HD quality by any means but still easy to watch with no hiccups (touch wood)

Only issueim having is yelling at Luke to go up stronger! He can certainly pass though

NBL.TV hooked up to 92 inch projector looks pretty good, hopefully it continues to stream well as per previous two rounds.

To all those having issues not sure why as my home net is only a Telstra pocket wifi 3G and we do not have a fantastic connection 2-3Mbps.

To far out to get ADSL 2+ and some 7-8km from the exchange so even ADSL would probably not be worth the effort.

Go Sixers

Ingles13, what about his tweeting?